[mace0]

Hey, sorry have been pretty busy but I finally tried the VX manager and it seemed to work, what does that mean and should I update the firmware this way? The device looks like a ICOM (silver one) is listed to work with ISTA but guessing that isn't the case? Seller has agreed to offer a refund but would rather not send it back to china if it can do what I need it to. Thanks again.

If you do want to keep it, then have a read on that website from where you downloaded VX Manager, you need to run other software before it will EMULATE an ICOM.

Out of interest can you post photos of the hardware?

Yeah it seems to be recognized by itools just not in ista/p. It looks exactly like the icom next, genuine silver thing with wifi and the rubber sides... it even comes with the Actia stickers. Apparently it works with other cars brands and stuff I just don't have time to play around with it. I think the work was done this one just didn't work properlly or maybe it didn't like my car model... I sware i saw a page on how to update these somewhere but i cant find it now, it was a page which had instructions on getting it to work with esys, mine is an e90 but still now I know would have been handy.

Would you recommend the orange and black icom A2 clones? There is someone that sells them locally.